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Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert will present, “Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture II What Can We Do About It?” for the second in her two-part Tanner Lecture on Human Values. The first lecture will be held Thursday, April 28. This event will be livestreamed via Princeton's Media Central Live and held in-person in the Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101. Registration is REQUIRED for in-person attendance and is free and open to members of the public who are fully immunized against COVID-19. For the second lecture, Kolbert will consider the human response to human domination of the planet and the steps we can take to counteract the effects of our (in many cases inadvertent) interventions in the biological and geochemical systems that support life. Some possibilities include genetically engineering organisms to suit a rapidly changing world and re-engineering the atmosphere to offset global warming. She will ask if it is possible to, in effect, control for our own control, or if these measures merely represent a new kind of hazard. Kolbert will be joined in conversation by Robert Keohane, Princeton professor of public and international affairs, emeritus, and historian Iain McCalman, professor, emeritus, at the University of Sydney in Australia and past co-director of the Sydney Environment Institute. Hosted by the University Center for Human Values, the Tannner Lectures provide a forum for eminent scholars and public figures to reflect on learning related to values pertinent to the human condition. Kolbert’s lectures are cosponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), the Department of Geosciences, the Department of Politics, Princeton University Public Lectures, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and the Humanities Council. Kolbert last spoke at Princeton in 2019 as part of the Taplin Environmental Lecture Series sponsored by HMEI.
Tanner Lectures on Human Values ABSTRACT: In the second lecture, Elizabeth Kolbert will consider the human response to human domination of the planet. What steps will we take to counteract the effects of our (in many cases inadvertent) interventions in the biological and geochemical systems that support life? Some possibilities include: genetically engineering organisms to suit a rapidly changing world and re-engineering the atmosphere to offset global warming. Is it possible to, in effect, control for our own control? Or does it merely represent a new kind of hazard?” Elizabeth Kolbert is an award-winning journalist and author, best known for her groundbreaking work on climate change and the environment. What began with her travels from Alaska to Greenland and interviews with top scientists to get to the heart of the debate over global warming has grown into an ongoing effort to bring the plight of our planet into the consciousness of the American people through her articles and books. <br /> <br /> Kolbert has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999, Kolbert’s original series on global warming, “The Climate of Man,” won a National Magazine Award and became the book “Field Notes from a Catastrophe.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Sixth Extinction” also originated from her environmental journalism work for The New Yorker. So, too, her most recent book “Under a White Sky.” Kolbert’s masterful storytelling has been recognized with numerous additional honors, including a National Academies Communications Award, a Heinz Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Blake Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Pell Center Prize for Story in the Public Square. Commentators: Robert O. Keohane - Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University Iain McCalman - Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney, and former Co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute
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